Dr.-Ing. Marcel Bachmann, born 1984 in Berlin, is with the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany in the department “Welding Technology” since 2009 where he is leading the working group "Welding Simulation". He received his diploma from the Berlin Institute of Technology in Engineering Science and his Ph.D. for numerical investigations of electromagnetically-assisted high-power laser beam welding processes. Currently, he is working on several projects involving numerical simulations in welding processes.